One of the primary responsibilities of a supervisor of HIV/AIDS services is to improve the performance of people. A supervisor of health services works to make sure that those in need of healthcare receive high quality services from those who provide them. Good supervision increases the competence and satisfaction of providers, which improves the performance of the facility, which in turn increases the well-being and satisfaction of the clients.

The purpose of this course is to assist the HIV/AIDS supervisor in using a performance and quality improvement approach to guide, assist, train, and encourage staff to improve their performance and provide high quality health services. It is organized around a step-by-step process that is useful for all supervisors, particularly the new supervisor. The process can be used to solve specific performance-related gaps in delivery of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment care and support services and thereby improve health services. It can also be used to plan and initiate new HIV/AIDS services.
This two-week course focuses on supportive supervision techniques and provides updates on Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and Management of opportunistic Infections (OIs). The participant will also be exposed to practical application of HIV/AIDS supervision protocols in clinical settings.

Course focus:
Overview of the HIV pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Supportive Supervision
Technical Updates

18 August – 29 August 2008

This course targets supervisors of HIV/AIDS services at national, provincial, district and facility levels. They will be programme managers and staff of National AIDS Control Councils, Ministries of Health and Non-governmental Organisations responsible for improving the performance of HIV/AIDS providers in clinical settings.

Throughout Africa, dynamic managers of reproductive health (RH) programmes are seeking practical assistance in managing their organisations. They know that good management is critical, and that appropriate staffing and staff achievement are essential components of a successful management structure.
This course provides state-of-the-art guidance to RH programme managers who are dedicated to achieving organisational success through modern management techniques.

Participants will learn to:

• Build teams and facilitate team work;
• Appreciate the purpose and role of organisations at various stages;
• Design organisation charts conducive for implementing RH programmes;
• Gain an insight into management roles and functions;
• Develop competencies in problem solving and decision making, communication, managing
meetings, delegation, negotiation, conflict resolution and leadership;
• Apply principles of strategic planning while developing their assignments;
• Appreciate the importance of strategic planning in overall organisational performance
• Develop a project proposal;
• Develop and implement supervision plans for RH programmes;
• Monitor and evaluate programmes;
• Appreciate the importance of sustainability of programmes;
• Understand the role of financial management in programmes;
• Build strategic alliances with partners, stakeholders and collaborators;
• Appreciate the importance of becoming a learning organisation;
• Appreciate the importance of becoming a participative facilitator;
• Relate management of change to the paradigm shift from family planning to reproductive health;
• Appreciate the importance and use of selected management systems including MIS and Monitoring and Evaluation in reproductive health programmes.

12 – 30 March 2007

Managing Reproductive Health Programmes is designed for individuals with management responsibilities in organisations working in reproductive health. District, national or regional reproductive health programme co-ordinators working with Ministries of Health, family planning associations or national or international non-governmental organisations are excellent candidates for the course.

CAFS is a regional collaborating centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its worldwide effort to improve the quality and scope of reproductive health. Launched in 1996, “Operationalising Cairo and Beijing: A Training Initiative in Gender and Reproductive Health” is a collaboration of the WHO Secretariat, Women’s Health Project of the University of Witwatersrand and the Harvard School of Public Health.

The Initiative offers a three-week core curriculum in gender and rights in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS for senior programme managers, planners, and policy-makers. The course uses a unique format of core modules and regional case-material. The content has been adapted to highlight regional priorities and current controversies in diverse countries in relation to the MDGs and the ICPD and Beijing Plans of Action in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Course focus

• The gender concept and reproductive health
• Gender analysis
• Gender policy approaches
• Social determinants of health
• Gender mainstreaming in RH and HIV/AIDS programmes
• Health systems analysis
• Sexual and reproductive rights
• Gender and HIV/AIDS

13 October – 31 October 2008

The course is suitable for both senior and middle-level managers, planners and policy-makers. They will be individuals directly responsible for influencing or making policies to implement the MDGs and the Cairo and Beijing Programmes of Action. The course is beneficial for participants from both public and NGO sectors.

Today, communities are facing numerous health problems including HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, childhood illnesses, pregnancy related complications, malnutrition and many other communicable diseases. Community-based health services have developed from an alternative delivery system for controlling communicable diseases and promoting maternal and child health. Good management is critical to the success of community based health care programmes. Strategic management skills are required to meet these challenges. This three-week course provides hands-on skills needed to design, implement, supervise, monitor and evaluate integrated community-based Health care programmes. It also aims to enhance community participation in programmes.

Course focus:

• Introduction to Community-based Health care services
• Mobilizing Communities for Health and Social Change
• Community/Home- based HIV/AIDS services
• Community-based Reproductive Health
• Community-based Malaria Services
• Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI)
• Community-based Tuberculosis Services
• Programme Design and Development
• Management of Community-based Health Programmes
• Becoming a Facilitator/Trainer

16 June – 4 July 2008

This course targets personnel from Governments, NGOs, community-based organisations (CBOs), faith-based organisations (FBOs) currently supporting or coordinating community-based health programmes or intending to do so in the near future. Organisations are encouraged to send a group of managers / supervisors in order to reinforce teamwork in programmes

Nairobi, Kenya

The HIV & AIDS epidemic continues to spread, with the majority of infections occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. While prevention of HIV infection remains the most important approach to the control of the epidemic, care and support for the infected and affected is becoming crucial. Therefore, HIV & AIDS programme managers require practical strategic management skills for developing effective interventions to address HIV & AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support issues.

Course focus:

• The situation of Reproductive Health and HIV and AIDS
• Targeted HIV & AIDS interventions
• Sector wide approach (SWAP) to the Reproductive Health and HIV & AIDS Programmes
• Understanding Your Organisation
• Understanding Management
• Developing Your Managerial Skills
• Team Building
• Policy Development
• Strategic Planning
• Programme Design and Development
• Financial Management
• Learning Organisations
• Facilitation Skills
• People Management
• Building Strategic Alliances in HIV & AIDS

10 - 28 November 2008

This course is designed for potential and current programme managers in the field of HIV & AIDS in various sectors including the government, NGO and private sectors. These are people responsible for coordination and day-to-day implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes within their organisations. Programme officers and advisors working for multi and bi-lateral organisations responsible for providing technical assistance to national or community-based organisations will benefit from this course.

Nairobi, Kenya

Advocacy has become a requisite tool for reproductive health and HIV & AIDS programme managers and service providers throughout the continent. As competition for scarce resources increases, advocacy skills become important tools in influencing the decision-making process regarding resource allocation. This two week course provides hands-on experience in designing, developing and setting indicators for monitoring and evaluating an advocacy campaign and strategy aimed at influencing policy change.

Course focus:

• Identifying problems, policy issues and solutions
• Setting advocacy goals and objectives
• Identifying and researching audiences
• Developing and delivering advocacy messages
• Using data to advocate for health policy development and planning
• Formal and informal decision-making processes
• Building alliances, networks and coalitions
• Self-development skills
• Effective presentations
• Resources mobilisation
• Monitoring and evaluating advocacy efforts

2 June - 13 June 2008

This course targets people who wish to improve and use advocacy skills to achieve their personal and organisational goals in reproductive health policies and programmes.They will be programme managers and staff of government departments and NGOs who wish to influence policies in their agencies and/or communities, professionals in institutions, associations and networks involved in advocacy, researchers interested in promoting the utilization of their findings, trainers and lecturers who work with advocates.

Nairobi, Kenya

The funding for health services is continuously declining and the funding agencies are no longer satisfied with mere progress reports. There is also increased pressure on HIV & AIDS programmes managers to be accountable, show impact, and carefully select areas of investments in order to maximize the impact of scarce resources. Thus, impact assessment has become a major step in the planning and implementation of HIV & AIDS programmes and monitoring of on-going projects has become an important internal management tool. Unfortunately, the capacity to assess impact on an on-going basis and make the results of such assessment part of the continuous process of planning and implementing HIV & AIDS programmes is still weak in many developing countries. Although the demand for such training and skill building is very high, only few organisations offer such training in the region.
In response to this, CAFS has developed a three-week course to provide hands-on skills in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems and tools in HIV & AIDS programmes. The course provides training in fundamentals of monitoring and evaluation tools and techniques.

Course focus:

• Monitoring and evaluation concepts and practices
• Logical framework for programme design
• Building performance monitoring and evaluation plans
• Selecting indicators
• Impact evaluation designs
• Collecting and analyzing monitoring data
• Utilization and feedback of M&E results
• Monitoring and evaluating behaviour change communication programmes
• Monitoring and evaluating home-based care programmes
• Monitoring and evaluating voluntary counselling and testing services
• Monitoring and evaluating prevention of mother-to child transmission programmes
• Monitoring and evaluating clinical care programmes
• Monitoring and evaluating orphans and venerable children programmes

28 July – 15 August 2008

This course targets professionals who wish to improve and use monitoring and evaluation skills to achieve their programme goals in HIV & AIDS. They will be programme managers, programme officers in charge of monitoring and evaluation, and staff of government departments and NGOs who wish to improve their reporting systems and promote impact assessment.

Nairobi, Kenya

This course is structured into three modules:
1. Understanding Behaviour and Behaviour change: • The communication process • The concept of behaviour change • Theoretical principles for behaviour change • Steps to behaviour change • Influences, motivators and inhibitors to change Designing Effective Behaviour Change Communication Interventions for HIV/AIDS • Framework for developing a behaviour change communication strategy • Understanding the risk factors that expose individuals to HIV • Audience analysis and segmentation • Defining desired behaviour and attitude changes • Setting communication goals and objectives • Selecting communication strategies, channels and media • Developing a behaviour change communication monitoring and evaluation plan.
3. Developing Appropriate Messages and Materials to Promote Behaviour Change: • Formative research • Message design • BCC materials development • Pretesting and revising BCC messages and materials • BCC materials production and dissemination.

14 July - 25 July 2008

This course is designed for programme officers and managers working in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and health education in various sectors including ministries of health, HIV/AIDS NGOs, reproductive health organisations, civil society and for-profit organisations. Programme Officers working for multi- and bi-lateral organisations that are responsible for providing technical assistance to national organisations or projects will also benefit from this course.

Applicants should complete a course application form in detail and mail to: The Director Centre for African Family Studies CAFS Centre, Mara Road Upper Hill P.O. Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya or fax to:
Fax: +254 (0)20 273 14 89 or mail to:
Email: courses@cafs.org
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Nairobi, Kenya

The course will cover the following content: 1. Gender concepts and definitions 2. Social construction of masculinity and femininity 3. Gender and its impact on RH, HIV/AIDS and development 4. Understanding gender-based violence 5. Framework for Culturally Sensitive Programming 6. Using Men as Partners (MAP) approaches to address GBV 7. Domestic Violence 8. Sexual violence 9. Female genital mutilation (FGM) 10. Advocacy, Negotiation and Communication Skills.

21 April – 25 April 2008

This course is designed for program managers and professionals responsible for the developing and implementing interventions for eradicating women violence, harmful practices or promoting gender equality and family health. They will include staff from governments, NGOs, civil society, humanitarian organisation, development partners and technical assistance agencies

Applicants are advised to seek financial assistance from bilateral and multilateral agencies and organisations operating in their own countries such as USAID, CIDA, UNFPA, FAO and GTZ. Participants are advised to ensure that payments are made by the sponsoring agency before the training programme begins.

Applicants should complete a course application form in detail and mail to: The Director Centre for African Family Studies CAFS Centre, Mara Road Upper Hill P.O. Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya or fax to:
Fax: +254 (0)20 273 14 89 or mail to:
Email: courses@cafs.org
Internet: Click here

Nairobi, Kenya

Components of HIV and AIDS workplace programmes • Legal and ethical and HIV and AIDS workplace issues • Developing HIV/AIDS workplace policy • Involving PLWHA in HIV and AIDS workplace programmes • Peer education and counselling at the workplace • Counselling, testing and self disclosure • Reducing stigma and discrimination towards people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) at the workplace • Orientation on antiretroviral combination therapy Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV • Designing, planning and implementing HIV and AIDS workplace interventions • Monitoring and evaluating HIV/AIDS workplace programmes.

5 May – 16 May 2008

This course is designed for a wide range of managers from private, public, and civil society organisations that either desire to initiate or strengthen their organisational response to HIV and AIDS at the workplace. Such managers may include health and safety managers, quality control managers, human resource, personnel and administration managers, labour union and industrial relations managers, medical, clinical and nursing officers, and AIDS control programme managers.

Applicants are advised to seek financial assistance from bilateral and multilateral agencies and organisations operating in their own countries such as USAID, CIDA, UNFPA, FAO and GTZ. Participants are advised to ensure that payments are made by the sponsoring agency before the training programme begins.

Applicants should complete a course application form in detail and mail to: The Director Centre for African Family Studies CAFS Centre, Mara Road Upper Hill P.O. Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya or fax to:
Fax: +254 (0)20 273 14 89 or mail to:
Email: courses@cafs.org
Internet: Click here

Nairobi, Kenya

The period of adolescence is a life phase in which young people are particularly vulnerable to health risks, especially those related to sexuality, HIV & AIDS and reproduction. How adolescence is experienced and affect health has largely to do with the timing and sequence of sexual initiation, marriage and childbirth, the degree to which timing and the sequence of these events are socially sanctioned or forbidden; and the number and availability of options regarding education, job training and employment. Close relationships between youth and their educators are particularly important in influencing youth development. However, parents and youth educators very often lack knowledge and skills for educating young people in HIV & AIDS and life skills. This two-week course provides hands-on skills for designing, implementing and evaluating HIV & AIDS interventions in youth institutions and associations that provide youth-friendly health education and services.
Course Focus:
• Understanding adolescence and sexuality
• Adolescent growth and development
• HIV & AIDS prevention and treatment
• HIV & AIDS misconception, stigma and discrimination
• Adolescent reproductive health rights and needs
• Alcohol and drug use
• Attitudes, beliefs and values associated with youth sexuality and reproduction
• Understanding youth reproductive decision-making
• Communicating effectively with youth on sexuality and HIV & AIDS
• Relationship skills
• Strategies for developing youth HIV & AIDS interventions
• Facilitation skills
• Supervising, monitoring and evaluating youth HIV & AIDS programmes

16 – 27 April 2007

This course is designed for youth HIV & AIDS programme managers, teachers, social workers and youth instructors who are managing or wish to initiate HIV & AIDS interventions in youth institutions, associations or community-based youth groups. Staff from the ministries of education, ministries of health, ministries of youth, ministries of social affairs, national youth services, schools, universities, uniformed forces, juvenile officers and youth organisations are excellent candidates for this course.

Applicants are advised to seek financial assistance from bilateral and multilateral agencies and organisations operating in their own countries such as USAID, CIDA, UNFPA, FAO and GTZ. Participants are advised to ensure that payments are made by the sponsoring agency before the training programme begins.

Applicants should complete a course application form in detail and mail to: The Director Centre for African Family Studies CAFS Centre, Mara Road Upper Hill P.O. Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya or fax to:
Fax: +254 (0)20 273 14 89 or mail to:
Email: courses@cafs.org
Internet: Click here

Nairobi, Kenya

The driving force behind good governance is the recognition that stakeholders have rights and that organizations have social responsibilities that require them to be accountable, open and transparent. Organisations’ management systems and procedures have been the focus of attention for some years and recent recognition is being given to that part of the organisations where control, responsibility and liability rest on the Board. The latter is a vital part of successful NGOs. A well structured and effectively managed Board provides strategic direction and policy guidelines that enhance organisational effectiveness. This two-week course is designed to equip Board members and managers with knowledge and skills to enable them improve accountability, transparency, good leadership and change management within their organisations.
Course Focus:
• Concept and principles of good governance
• Roles and responsibilities of Board vs senior managers
• Board development
• Board succession plans
• Effective board meetings
• Barriers to good governance
• Communication for good governance
• Board evaluation
• Visionary leadership development
• Reengineering your NGO
• Change management
• Conflict management
• Advocacy
• Networking and building alliances
• Resource mobilization

8 - 19 October 2007

This course is designed for board members and managers who wish to improve accountability, transparency and leadership in their non-governmental organisations.

Applicants are advised to seek financial assistance from bilateral and multilateral agencies and organisations operating in their own countries such as USAID, CIDA, UNFPA, FAO and GTZ. Participants are advised to ensure that payments are made by the sponsoring agency before the training programme begins.

Applicants should complete a course application form in detail and mail to: The Director Centre for African Family Studies CAFS Centre, Mara Road Upper Hill P.O. Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya or fax to:
Fax: +254 (0)20 273 14 89 or mail to:
Email: courses@cafs.org
Internet: Click here

Nairobi, Kenya

With the advent of globalization and the changing HIV & AIDS paradigm, managers find themselves in a far more competitive environment within which they must secure resources for the growth and sustainability of their organisations and programmes. Over-reliance on a single donor or source of funds is a risk for the continuity of programmes and the sustainability of organisations. Diversification of resources provides a foundation for an organisation to achieve a greater impact. This one-week course provides the skills for designing, implementing and evaluating an efficient resource mobilization campaign.
Course Focus:
• Understanding concepts and practices of resource mobilization
• Diversification of funding
• Fund raising process
• Designing marketing strategy
• Developing marketing plan for fund raising
• Effective communication in fund raising
• Effective negotiation skills
• Effective presentation
• Use of media for fund raising
• Mobilizing resources for fund raising

3 – 7 D